FAH207H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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The classical art period can encapsulate many things, including very small periods of greek history. Usually though it encapsulates both greek and roman art through and through. Western fashion though denoting something as classical means it is something to compare other things to, lasts throughout time and conventional. Polycleitus wrote a treatise called the cannon explaining how to create a beautiful male nude statue. Innumerate the ratios of body parts, from finger tips, to elbow, etc. Therefore, the term cannon means something measure things by. His aforementioned statue was a tribute to the formula in his treatise. [idealism and realism are not mutually exclusive although they tend to be on the opposite ends of the spectrum] The doryphoros is one of the first western pieces to demonstrate the contrapposto pose. His arms and legs alternate in relaxed to flex thus making it a chiastic composition. Botticelli, birth of venus c. 1486 birth of aphrodite, greek vase c. 370 bce.
